Chapter 42: The Bermuda Triangle

Talori was able to make it through the rest of the workday without difficulty. She soaked up the information Alyssa was telling her as best she could, sure to ask questions when she wasn't sure about something so she would get it right.

She told Brennan all about it when he came to pick her up from work and wheel her out to his car. He took her out to eat to celebrate her first day of work and listened intently to everything she had to say, asking elaborating questions here and there with a relaxed expression on his face.

"I'm glad you had a good first day, Talori," he said when she finished.

Talori grinned at him. "Me too! I like having things to do. Alyssa said I pick things up fast so I should be able to do stuff by myself before the end of the week."

"Awesome!"

It was awesome. She was so glad she had a job now. It had the dual benefit of giving her something to do other than sit around watching Harmony work and making money so she didn't have to use Brennan's all the time. She should take him to dinner once she got her first paycheck.

Goodness knows he had fed her enough times! She wouldn't have survived up here without him.

Fondness and gratitude flooded through her. Brennan had taken very good care of her, hadn't he? He was going above and beyond what he agreed on with her brother.

He was only supposed to keep her safe. He took her out to do fun things and experience more of the surface and was very patient with her endless questions. He had questions of his own but not nearly as many as she did since he knew everything there was to know about her life under the sea at this point.

Talori still had endless questions because of how much there was up here to learn. She felt that things had grown disproportionate in terms of information exchange. She was getting a lot more from him than he was getting from her and she didn't like it.

She wanted to help Brennan as much as he had helped her. He was such a nice fae. He deserved that.

He was probably the best fae she knew after Zale. He had been very good to her all this time. As much as she missed her brother…she knew she would miss Brennan too when she went home.

At least she would be able to see him sometimes because of their plan to work together on the think tank. And maybe he would come visit her when the witches did for the sake of exchanging mermaid tears for magic items as well with how often he hung out with Harmony. He was a regular at the witch coven anyway. Everyone there knew him.

"When you get your first paycheck we'll have to take you to Elite Financial Solutions," Brennan said. "I'm sure Castian will set things up for you."

Talori nodded. "That was my plan."

"It's nice to have connections. I know a lot of the fae around here at least passingly but I couldn't help you get a job. I guess I don't know enough of them that own their own businesses and could use the extra help."

"Don't worry about it! What matters is that I got a job in the end. You have already done so much to help me, Brennan. I truly appreciate it."

Brennan smiled at her. "It's no big deal."

"It is though!"

"If you say so." He was momentarily distracted by his phone buzzing and squinted at it before looking back up at her. "Do you want to meet more fairies? I've been invited to a birthday party this weekend."

Talori squealed in excitement. She had been waiting for the opportunity to meet more fae but Brennan didn't seem to hang out with his own kind very often.

"Yes!"

"Cool. I'll let them know I'm bringing someone. They're pretty chill about that sort of thing."

Brennan replied to the text and she felt her excitement grow. She wanted to learn as much about the surface and other fae as possible while she was up here and that was more likely to happen the more she met. She couldn't wait for this weekend!

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The rest of Talori's work week went well. She was able to handle things on her own with minimal question asking by Thursday and Alyssa seemed relieved to be able to get back to her own work for the most part.

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The party was on Saturday at a bowling alley about an hour and a half away. Brennan explained that most of the water fairies he knew lived near the Everglades rather than in Miami so it was being held closer to where they were.

The party itself would only last a few hours in the evening so he promised to take her sightseeing in the Everglades beforehand. She asked him all sorts of questions about it on the drive there and he told her everything he knew. He had been there plenty of times because of his water fairy friends.

They actually met one of them early because they were in charge of the boat tour the two of them signed up for. "Brennan! Long time no see! Why are you taking this tour? You already know almost everything about the Everglades."

Brennan gestured to Talori. "My friend here has never been. She's coming with me to the party tonight so I thought I'd come early and show her around. Talori, meet Kyle."

"Hello!" she said with an enthusiastic wave.

"Nice to meet you! Let me help get you onto the boat," Kyle said. "So are you from around here?"

"No. I am staying with Brennan for now though."

"Where are you from then?"

"The Bermuda Triangle," Talori said honestly since he wouldn't know of her kingdom or ocean coordinates.

Kyle looked at her funny. "Like an island in the Bermuda Triangle?"

"No."

Talori didn't get the chance to say anything else because a few humans had also booked this boat tour and they were quickly approaching. Kyle definitely still had questions but wasn't able to ask them because he had to take care of the next guests.

She was sure she would end up explaining things later at the party. Every fae she encountered aside from Piper had been relatively calm about discovering she was a mermaid. She wasn't terribly concerned.

Brennan was relaxed throughout the boat tour—likely because he had been on one before—but Talori took everything in eagerly. She took tons of pictures on her phone and desperately wished she could show them to Zale. Maybe she could if she got one of those special waterproof cases where you could still use the touch screen through it.

The thought cheered her. She was sure her brother would love to see everything she was seeing.

Talori's camera roll was completely full of pictures at this point. Brennan helped her upload them to something called Google Drive so she didn't have to keep them on her phone and take up storage space.

She took pictures of everything she found remotely interesting. Which was almost everything up here, honestly. She wanted to be able to have visual references when she told Zale about them. She wouldn't have internet at the bottom of the ocean but if she activated the offline feature beforehand it should be fine. Brennan had told her that when he helped her set things up.

"Brennan!" she whispered. "Say cheese!"

That was what humans said before taking pictures. She had seen it.

He laughed. "Alright. Cheese!"

Talori got a great shot of him grinning with the trees in the background. He wasn't in most of her pictures since they were primarily taken of places and objects but she made sure to get at least one either of him or with him when they were doing activities together.

Glamours didn't fool cameras. His blue skin and hair, pointed ears, and wings were clearly visible in the pictures of him that she had.

It was a shame that he didn't show his wings more often. They were beautiful. The only time she saw them was when they were both at his apartment. He explained that since she had seen them once that it wouldn't hurt to let them be free in front of her. That did not extend to when they were at the witch coven.

Talori was honored that he trusted her more than he trusted Harmony, who he had known much longer. Though she supposed he would have to since he was allowing her to stay in his apartment indefinitely.

The witch had mentioned once that she was pretty sure the majority of her coven thought Talori was some sort of wingless fairy who had gotten into an accident because she always came with Brennan. He had previously told her that a downed fairy was a dead fairy and that was why they were so protective of their wings. Flying away was their only defense against predators.

The idea of wingless fairies was much like that of tailless merfolk. They would never survive.. She couldn't even imagine the horror.

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